Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-06-24
THE DERBY RACES.

Further PostpOnement Yesterday.
DERBY, June 23.-AIl races to have taken
place to-day at Derby were postponed until
tomorrow on account of the storm. An ex-
ira race will occur, New Haven and South
ington parties having made arrangements for
running race to take place upon the park
at the close of the races here for purse of
5000, half mile heats, best three in FIVE.
THE YACHT CLUB REGATTA
To Take Place TO-Day-AnxIety Lest
the Weather BE Not As 1t Should BE
For the Races-HIgh Hopes Enter.
tained-TwO New Yachts Entered.
To day is the eventful day for the sixth
annual regatta of the New Haven Yacht
club. Will the weather be clear and bright!
was the universal question which those in
terested in the event were bordering over all
day yesterday 1t was a question which,
like many others, could not be answered.
Their hopes were high and not easily were
they to be dashed away. Then would there
be a nice breeze9 That was another unsolva-
BILE problem, and the yachtsmen had to content
themselves with all sorts of surmising.
There are twenty-eight yachts which will
classes. The Viking cannot arrive in time
for the race. Two new yachts will be on
deck for to-morrow's contest and will
endeavor to make some of the others look to
their laurels. They are the Moya and the
Vidette. The Moya was built by the makers
of the Puritan and the Mayhower, is thirty
two feet long, and has been used by its
owner, Mr.. Burgess, as a favorite yacht
Then there is the Vidette, owned by H B.
Shepard. She has not been on the water
long, having just left the hands of Boat
Builder Thatcher. She is a peculiarly
shaped boat, and will be manned by
Mr.. Shepard himself. As this is her first
race nothing astonishing is expected of her,
being entered in class d, in which class are
such we'll known yachts as the Stranger, the
Vixen and the Ceres, which are very fast in
speed.
At ten O'Clock the steamer Erastus Corn
ing will start from Starin's dock, the Second
Regiment band on board, and Diebel, the
caterer, along. Everything is promising that
large number will avail themselves of see
ing the yachts make pretty sights in blowing
through the water, struggling for supremacy;
and delighted and excited will be the hearts
of the pretty girls and others who see these
sights.
The starting point for the yachts will be off
Pardees bar buoy. The course then lies
down the harbor, passing Ludington Rock
buoy to starboard, thence westward to and
around a stake boat west southwest of
Charles Island, on a range with New Haven
and Stratford lights This is the new course
adopted by the club this spring. Joseph T.
Whittelsey will act as starter, L. A. Elliot
and R. R. Hopkins as timekeepers, and Eli
Whitney, IT., Henry Farnham and Thomas
R. Trowbridge, jr., as judges.
Everything is ready for the regatta, and as
the first ray of light peeps from the eastern
horizon this morning the yachtsman will open
his door to see what are the indications of
the weather for the day. And if the indiea-
must appear and send forth some of his ra-
diant light. And the breezes, they, too,
must come to stay for the day, lest their fck-
leness prove damper to the occasion. With
old Sol and the breezes. and the adjunctive
things already done by the club, the regatta
will be the best the club ever had.